Quietly unfolding as a folk-horror of German history, the stories in the film are told from the peripheries and through the ...

The Thirty Years War of 1618 to 1648 killed up to 7m soldiers and civilians. Parts of the German lands over which Europe’s armies fought lost more than half their populations. If there was a ...

I write as the daughter of German immigrants who survived Nazi Germany and came to America in the early 1950s. My father was conscripted in Germany, at 17 years of age, and fought in the German army ...

Berliners line up to pay their respects at one of the city's Soviet World War II memorials. May 8, 2025. (Dave Braneck/Courthouse News) BERLIN (CN) — The horrifying history of World War II doesn’t ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Germany has spent decades reckoning with its Nazi history and the Holocaust. But in recent years, far-right extremism and violent plots, especially against Jews, Muslims and immigrants, have been on ...

In the new mini-series, the German actor plays the former head of Deutsche Bank whose dramatic murder remains one of the country's great unsolved crimes. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief “The ...

Hoyer has several important advantages that Steinbeck and Capa lacked. East Germany’s fearsome internal security apparatus is long gone, which means her surviving subjects are free to speak openly ...

Germany's Bundeswehr was founded on November 12, 1955. The decision was highly controversial, just 10 years after the end of World War II. Today, the Bundeswehr is expected to assume a leadership role ...